On Saturday I am going to engage in one of the toughest days I will have gone through for a while. It will involve an early start (never good on a Saturday), late finish, some concentrated physical stress, and over 12 hours of focus.
No, I’ve not taken up extreme sport, I’m instead going to be watching all three Lord of the Rings films with a couple of friends. The extended editions.
I’ve seen each of the films a number of times, but only seen an extended edition once, and that was quite a while back.
So It will be a long, long day. And it will be strange seeing Charlie from Lost as a hobbit again.
Which reminds me of my top Lord of the Rings joke:
Q: What’s Sauron’s favourite football team?
A: Wraith Rovers.
That is a bad joke. Simon, if you do take up extreme sport (in the singular), you should check out extreme ironing. Just go and collect the ironing board you saw on the street the other night and iron away.
In a slightly tangential manner that reminded me of the time that Ayrshire-born, Weathergirl Kirsty McCabe, a Killie supporter, referred to Ibrox as ‘Castle Greyskull’ while doing a weather forecast on BBC Scotland.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirsty_McCabe
Also: ‘Mon the Killie!
Wow … such endurance. I hope you have been training intensively in preparation for this (and have laid in the necessary supplies to keep your strength up) otherwise you may be overwhelmed…